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UNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED A. SODERBERG, OF VOROESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO IIILMER SVENSON, OF SAME PLACE.

IVIARlNE MERRY-GO-ROUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 586,699, dated July 20, 1897.

Application filed November 9, 1896. Serial No. 611,511. (No model.)

T .all 207mm. it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED A. SODERBERG, a citizen of Sweden, but having declared my intention of becoming a citizen of the United States, residing at Vorcester, in the county of "Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Marine llilerry-Go-Rounds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in merry-go-rounds; and the main object of my improvements is to adapt t-he same for use in water at seaside resorts.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the main portion ot' my merry-go-round, the arms which carry the passengers being represented as broken off. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same with the outer section of the arms removed. Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view with portions broken away. Fig. l is a plan view of the truck, the shafts of the slide-shifter and the brake being shown in horizontal section. Fig. 5 is a still further enlarged axial section, partly in elevation, of the reel for carrying the feedwires. Fig. 6 is a vertical section, partly in elevation, of parts of my machine, showing the counter-shafts for driving the truck and the turn-table. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of one of the passenger-carrying arms as provided with simple swing-like seats. Fig. 8 is a side elevation of the outer end of one of said arms as provided with floats for the passengers to sit on.

A, Fig. 1, designates a base-line, which represents any suitable or ordinary tramway for the truck-wheels 9 to run upon and which may extend from any desired place on the seashore down into the water, so that the complete machine may be run from the shore as far into the water as occasion may require. Upon the top of the truck-frame 10 is a sliding frame 11 with wedgeshaped pieces 12 13 at its ends, said frame beingheld in place laterally by a suitable track or way 14, Figs. 2 and L1. Above this sliding frame is the turntable platform 15, the two ends of which rest upon the wedge-shaped pieces 12 13, while the middle portion of the said platform is partly supported and balanced on the slotted ears 16 and pins 17, Figs. 1 and G..

Extending upwardly from the middle portion of the turnetable platform `is a motorframe 18, on the top of which is an electric motor 10, of any ordinary construction. Sur rounding said motor-frame on the top of the platform 15 is a circular track 22 for the turntable 2O or revolving frame. At a point above this turn-table, rigidly secured to the motorframe, is the operators plat-form 2l. I prefer to place under this platform a second circular track 23, of the same diameter and concentric with the circular track 22. I have shown the turn-table or revolving frame in the form of a hexagonal frame provided with three wheels to iit the tracks 22 and 23 and support the same as it is revolved in the manner hereinafter described. The upper circu lar track 23 should be low enough or the wheels 2l large enough so that the upper track will prevent the turn-table from tipping. rlhis turn-table is provided with a series of arms 26, (six arms in the form showin) and l prefer to make these arms in two parts, so that the arms ends 27 may be attached to and detached from the main portion for convenience of transportation. The arms as a whole radiate from the circular supporting-trucks, as shown, and carry at their outer ends means for carrying or drawing passengers-as, for example, suspended swing-like seats 2S, as shown in Fig. 7, or floats 29 of any desired design, as shown in Figs. 3 and S.. Although the design of the floats is immaterial, it would be appropriate to have them represent various sea-monsters- The motor is supplied through the feed and return wires from any proper source, said wires extending over the pulleys 30 on the top of the supports 3l, Figs. 1 and 2 only, that extend upwardly from the frame 18 to the take-up reel This reel, as shown, is composed mainly of three disks and rods 33, (see Fig. 5,) the middle disk 34 being of some insulating material. One of the wires 25 is connected to the metal hub 35 on one side of the reel yand the other of the wires 25 to the other metal hub 35 at the opposite side of the reel,

and the reel has its metal hubs 35 supported on metal centers or points 36, set in the frame 18 and having their threaded outer ends provided with nuts 37 to form binding parts by which to fasten the respective wires 38, that lead to the positive and negative poles of the motor. The middle disk 34 of the reel is toothed and engages with a pinion 39 on the crank-shaft 40, whereby the operator may turn said reel through said crank-shaft to wind up the Wires when desired. The pinionshaft may be provided with an ordinary ratchet and pawl to prevent the reel from. accidentally unwinding.

One end of the motor is provided with a loose drivin g-pulley or sprocket-wheel 41 and a clutch 42, by means of which it may be connected to and disconnected from the motor. I have not shown a shipper for the clutch, as any ordinary clutch and shipper may be employed. From said pulley or sprocket-wheel a belt or chain 43 extends to a wheel 44 on the counter shaft 45. (See Fig. 6.) This counter-shaft carries a second whee146, over which a chain 47, Fig. 1, runs to the wheel 48 on the shaft 49 of the truck, whereby the truck may be driven to run the machine to any desired part of its tramway. At the other end of the motor is a like wheel 41 and clutch 42, from which the chain 50 runs to the wheel 51 on the counter-shaft 52. This counter-shaft carries the pinion 53, that engages the rack 54 on the under side of the turn-table for driving it. The operators platform is provided with a vertical brake-shaft 55, provided with any ordinary crank or wheel for turning it, and a chain or cable 56, Fig. 4, extends from the lower end of said brake-shaft to the lever 57 of the brake58. Another vertical crank or wheel shaft 59 on the operators platform extends downward to a level with the sliding frame and carries a sprocket-wheel 60 at its lower end. A chain 61, stretched from end to end of this frame and engaging said sprocketwheel,enables the operator to move said frame in either direction, as may be desired.

The reel lwill have wire wound on it of a length to enable the machine to travel the whole length of the tramway. This is practicable because the tramway will never be of any great length. If the machine is to run down the inclined tramway, the operator releases the bra-ke from the truck-wheels and the machine runs down by gravity, the operator meanwhile permitting the wire to unwind from the reel as the machine moves along. The wider wedge 12 of the sliding frame will be at the downhill end of the truck, and the operator may adjust said frame to bring the turn-table platform level notwithstanding that the truck stands on an incline.

The passengers will be dressed in bathingsuits or otherwise prepared for bathing and may be seated on the seats or floats while the l of the surf.

machine is out of the water or afterward, as may be desired. Then the machine has entered the water sufficiently to have the bathers strike the water to the desired depth, the brake is applied to hold the truck, and the power is applied from the motor to the wheel the bathers through the water as they sit on the swing-seats or the floats. If there is a lgood surf, moving around in a circle will carry the bathers at all angles to the waves, and thus bring them alternately into and out In case the water is still, or for other reason, the operator can set the platform, and consequently the turn-table frame,

` on an incline, so that as the bathers are carried around they will alternately be dipped down into and lifted out of the Water. To run up the incline, the operator puts the power of the motor in operation to drive the chain 43 and truck-shaft 49, thereby moving the truckwheels 9 of said shaft for driving the truck. The truck may, if desired, be moved along in either direction on the tramway without stopping the revolution of the turn-table. By the addition of another driving-wheel and clutch to the motor the machine may be made to travel in both directionsv by power instead of traveling one way by gravity.

I claim as my invention- 1. A merry-go-round turn-table, a tilting platform on which said turn-table is mounted and means for adjusting said turn-table relatively to said platform, substantially as de` scribed and for the purpose specified.

2. A merry-go-round turn-table, a tilting platform on which said turn-table is mounted and a t-ruck for carrying the entire machine from place to place, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

3. Amerry-go-round turn-table, a truck for carrying the entire machine, a motor and means for connecting said motor with the mechanism for moving the truck and separate and independent means for connecting said motor with the mechanism for revolving the turn-table, whereby both the truck and the turn-table may be simultaneously operated or either maybe operated while the other is at rest substantially as described and for the purpose specied.

4. A merry-go-round turn-table platform having a circular track iixed thereon, a motor-frame rising from the central portion of said platform and fixed thereon, an operators platform supported on said motor-frame above said turn-table platform and bearing on its under side a companion circular track which is also iixed to said platform, and a turn-table frame surrounding said fixed motor-frame and mounted on wheels running between the said two fixed circular tracks to revolve the turn-table frame about the said y or pulley carrying the chain 50 and thus revolves the frame of the turn-table and draws IOO IIO

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fixed motor-frame, substantially as described and for the purpose speeied.

5. Anierry-go-ronnd turn-table arranged to revolve around a fixed supporting-frame, upper and lower circular tracks fixed to said supporting-frame for engaging respectively the upper and lower sides of the Wheels of said turn-table, and radiating arms rigidly fixed to said turn-table and extendingl oui:- k

Wardiy beyond the said upper and lower cir- "io cular tracks whereby said tracks hold the turirtable against nipping when the said radiaing, arms are unevenly loaded substantially as described.

ALFRED A. SODERBERG. lVitnesses:

JAMEs SHEPARD, A. W. STIPEK. 

